Thursday, April 07, 2011
Stone-Cold Fielder
This cracks me up. Instead of using career numbers, they are building their batter hot-zone/cold-zone based on this year's small sample-size. Apparently the best strategy against Prince Fielder is a fastball right down Wisconsin Avenue. Whatever you do, don't throw it on the corners!
A couple other comments about the MLB.com GameDay this year:
1. Have to remember to not click on Video Highlights. The audio comes on and blows away the radio broadcast. Then you have to fiddle with it, switching sources until it realizes you want to listen.
2. Sometimes it gets stuck. In employing the earlier strategy, I would sometimes get stuck with the terrible Braves announcers.
3. My favorite stations are the ones that don't have commercials (like the Pirates) and you just get that awesome ambient sound of a ballpark and/or some "off-live" commentary by the broadcasters.
4. It's hard sometimes to figure out what happened in the inning beyond one batter. You have to go to Summary and then Play by Play and then scroll the tiny bar. It seems like it takes longer than it should.
5. It's really cool that they use video-game technology to differentiate the parks.
6. The badges thing is totally goofy but maybe a fun game-within-game. Basically each game each team has three players from each team with some kind of action ascribed to them. Like "Yuniesky Betancourt - Double." If it happens while you're listening, I guess, you win the badge and it goes up on your trophy wall. It reminds me of "Pick to Click" started by the White Sox announcers and continued by my family and I when we go to games. I'd like it more if you got to choose something yourself, but still it's kind of fun. All you have to do is listen.
And dang... who would have thought a week into the season that I would have as many wins as the Red Sox and Rays combined?!
Lastly, Loe's got the bases juiced in the top of the eighth with AGon up. Come on, Loe!!! "Yuni B?" with the play! Is that what we're calling him, Ueck? Yuck.
This cracks me up. Instead of using career numbers, they are building their batter hot-zone/cold-zone based on this year's small sample-size. Apparently the best strategy against Prince Fielder is a fastball right down Wisconsin Avenue. Whatever you do, don't throw it on the corners!
A couple other comments about the MLB.com GameDay this year:
1. Have to remember to not click on Video Highlights. The audio comes on and blows away the radio broadcast. Then you have to fiddle with it, switching sources until it realizes you want to listen.
2. Sometimes it gets stuck. In employing the earlier strategy, I would sometimes get stuck with the terrible Braves announcers.
3. My favorite stations are the ones that don't have commercials (like the Pirates) and you just get that awesome ambient sound of a ballpark and/or some "off-live" commentary by the broadcasters.
4. It's hard sometimes to figure out what happened in the inning beyond one batter. You have to go to Summary and then Play by Play and then scroll the tiny bar. It seems like it takes longer than it should.
5. It's really cool that they use video-game technology to differentiate the parks.
6. The badges thing is totally goofy but maybe a fun game-within-game. Basically each game each team has three players from each team with some kind of action ascribed to them. Like "Yuniesky Betancourt - Double." If it happens while you're listening, I guess, you win the badge and it goes up on your trophy wall. It reminds me of "Pick to Click" started by the White Sox announcers and continued by my family and I when we go to games. I'd like it more if you got to choose something yourself, but still it's kind of fun. All you have to do is listen.
And dang... who would have thought a week into the season that I would have as many wins as the Red Sox and Rays combined?!
Lastly, Loe's got the bases juiced in the top of the eighth with AGon up. Come on, Loe!!! "Yuni B?" with the play! Is that what we're calling him, Ueck? Yuck.
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